By Gifts Antoniou

“The reformation is not in the prime minister’s intentions” said yesterday the government spokesman, Paul Marinakisclosing – at least for the time being – the discussion of possible changes in the government. This statement, apparently different from its previous relevant positions, shows that it is the desire of the government leadership to stop the debate, because apparently the reshuffle is postponed. Indicatively, less than two weeks ago, on February 3, when he was again asked when informing political editors about the possible change in government, Mr Marinakis had replied that “The reshuffle is an exclusive privilege of the Prime Minister. I have no impression or picture that there is a reshuffle ‘. Yesterday, his assurance that no reshuffle was going to take place was absolute. Neither ‘impression’ nor ‘picture’.

The statement by the government spokesman comes to confirm the information of the last days, according to which the prime minister does not wish to proceed now with changes to the government figure For two reasons: Because the cycle of developments related to the Tempe case has not yet been completed, as the findings, concentrations for the two -year anniversary and potential political developments are expected, such as the submission of a distrust proposal, which can differentiate data . Secondly, because it does not want to appear that it operates under the pressure of events, that it is dragged by developments, but it wants any changes to the government to be made at a time that marks that it has the initiative of movements.

The debate on possible changes in the government is steadily coming back to the forefront on various occasions since last November. Then it was the deletion of Antonis Samaras that activated the reshuffle scenarios. The rationale for the relevant suggestions to the prime minister was that it would help to absorb the vibrations of the deletion in the intra -party landscape a clockwise reshuffle by utilizing more executives of the party’s most conservative wing. When, however, it appeared that the deletion of Samarra did not bring much turmoil, the debate on a possible reshuffle stopped. Probably, he got a change for later. Because already there were references to arrhythmias that had been identified in the functioning of the government and the need for corrective moves.

The debate on the reshuffle did not stop, but continued in the light of the presidential election process. The scenarios that were heard shortly before the Christmas holidays were two: that the changes in the government would proceed immediately, so that any vibration and reactions from unhappy people who were removed from the government or by executives who were not ministered until we reached out to the presidential election and do not appear there, with voting differentiation. The second scenario wanted it precisely because of the forthcoming presidential election that the reshuffle was relocated after mid -February, when it was foreseen that the process would be completed.

Protest rallies for the Tempi On January 26th, and the political upheaval that followed, rekindled the scenarios for changes in the government, in order for the government leadership to show that they perceive the struggles of the citizens, but also to earn political time and space. The government spokesman with yesterday’s posting pushed back the discussion, which is not leaving the spotlight, just getting another postponement.